Re:Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
by 0x0 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @06:48PM
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> Just like ending files on ctrl-Z (yes, it is End-Of-File, but filesystems know where the end of the file is already)
Very old filesystems didn't track file sizes in bytes, just blocks, so a literal EOF byte was needed to know where to stop reading in the middle of the last block of 128 bytes or so.
Very old filesystems didn't track file sizes in bytes, just blocks, so a literal EOF byte was needed to know where to stop reading in the middle of the last block of 128 bytes or so.